MARRAKESH – WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT? (Part I)

This ‘Pact’ is a complicated disgrace: the way it has been formulated, the way it has been reported (not!), the way it has been debated in our Parliament (not!) and the way it will influence our lives. To make the most important point first, the outcry used everywhere by those who love this Pact: it is not legally binding anyway, so why not sign it – whereupon the opponents keep saying: if it’s not legally binding, why sign it? Obfuscation by TPTB reigns supreme …

INTRODUCTION

Have you heard of the “Marrakesh Pact”? If you are a regular consumer of our wonderful British MSM, you might think this about a hot holiday destination for the next summer, hotels offering a package deal.

If you regularly scan the “alt” news sites, you may have heard that this is a UN proposal, to be signed next month by all UN members, to ‘regulate’ Migration, but will have wondered why we have heard nothing about it either from our government or in our MSM. This isn’t strange because as usual, since the online national papers from across the Channel – from Le Monde to the ‘Neue Züricher Zeitung’ – only reported in October that Austria would not sign our MSM followed suite.

So – what is it about? And why are some countries not signing up to it?

Of course, the actual text was not precisely disseminated – one had to dig for it. Here is the text of the final draft:

Why, you might ask when you see that title, is such a ‘Compact’ a bad thing? Surely we’re all good people and want to help? Surely it’s high time to deal with migration? And refugees? Well, yes – and you might also ask why our MSM didn’t see fit to report on this, given that our Government is poised to sign it next month in Marrakesh.

These are valid questions, especially since one of the top Nations to undersign this pact is Germany which was deeply involved in negotiating this Pact.

In contrast to here in the UK, there the debate has been kicked off with a vengeance since Austria’s chancellor Mr Kurz declared his country would not sign. Suddenly people learned that the USA and Australia had withdrawn already … and that was in July this year: summer holidays, heatwave: people surely had other things on their minds, thought our Establishment, so why waste air time and pixels. Better not to stir things up, especially as people might ask inconvenient questions, such as how did this Compact come about? Were there negotiations, and why was that not reported?

There are thus three aspects to the story of the disgrace that is this Compact. One is the history of it, of how it came about, which I’ll look at in Part I. The other two aspects are the way the governments involved and their handmaidens, the MSM, have kept us informed, and the actual text itself. I’ll address those points in Part II, published tomorrow.

A BRIEF LOOK BACK AT THE CREATION OF THE GLOBAL COMPACT

First, take a look at the IOM – the International Organization for Migration. Here is their ‘mission statement’, and here you’ll find a bit on its history. Like many organisations founded on noble ideas, it evolved and became the unashamed promoter of migration from poor countries to the rich it is today. From the map provided in the wiki page it looks as if only Antarctica is not a member.

On the basis of the work of the IOM and under its auspices, other countries organised themselves, mostly as NGOs, and received financial help from humanitarian billionaires. It is fair to say that the IOM has encouraged economic migration for some time. In the wake of 2015 (we all remember what happened …), the UN General Assembly decided to take action:

Other agencies also got involved, e.g. the UN’s Refugee agency UNHCR stepped up to the plate, as did a group calling itself “Rabat Process – European-African Dialogue on Migration and Development”.

The UNHCR submitted their final draft (read it here) on the “Global Compact” on June 26th 2018. The “Rabat Process” on the 2nd of May 2018 – you can read their proposals, and the list of participants here.

When the final draft of this ‘Global Compact’ was on the table in July this year, President Trump withdrew the USA’s participation. So did Australia. This is the list so far of countries who will not sign this Global Compact, a.k.a Marrakesh Treaty:

United States, China, Japan, Canada, Australia, Austria, Poland, Italy, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Greece, Croatia, Denmark, Norway, Slovenia, Israel and South Korea. Bulgaria is the latest state to announce its withdrawal. Other countries may well join this list. Estonia is debating it and so are the Swiss. Both countries’ parliamentarians believe this decision should be made in their Parliaments and not done behind closed doors by their governments.

However, Brussels is all for it. France will sign, opposition notwithstanding. And so will Germany. However, because of Austria’s withdrawal, publicly announced by Chancellor Mr Kurz, the German MSM had to report on this Pact – and were suddenly overwhelmed with comments from irate readers as to why they hadn’t reported on this sooner. Then the AfD insisted on a debate in the Bundestag, which followed the usual spectacle of the rest of the German Parliamentarians ganging up on them and declaring that all opposition to this fine treaty was pure neonazism. It didn’t help – the floodgates opened and the text was handed around …

13 Comments

The basic gist of this agreement, as I understand it, is that the UN/EU is seeking to ‘legalise’ illegal immigration. They can dress it up in all the nice fluffy words like “safe and orderly migration” but that is the ultimate end goal. No borders, open world, freedom to move anywhere.

Rhys Burriss
on November 14, 2018 at 5:55 pm

Viv
Can I suggest you seek to re publish this on the conservativehome website ?

Some MPs do read that site who might be minded to raise the issue in Parliament .

Vivian Evans
on November 14, 2018 at 6:13 pm

I can certainly offer it to them – together with the forthcoming (tomorrow) Part II which delves into the belly of the beast that is the text of this pact.

Rhys Burriss
on November 14, 2018 at 6:29 pm

Good.
Can do no harm to offer it to them.
Here is the link to their contact page:

Don’t laugh.. But I would send it to labour too. Quirky yes.,a waste of time ? E have nothing to lose.. As said in times like these cross party solidarity is a must 😉

Chris Dark
on November 14, 2018 at 5:17 pm

Knowledge of it certainly exists around the blogs, but the average Joe in the street knows nothing about it.

Russell Hicks
on November 14, 2018 at 4:15 pm

Gerard Batten mentioned this in his conference speech, since then NOTHING. Mass, uncontrolled immigration is WW3 against our civilisation and the ‘leadership’ of UKIP cannot raise the alarm…HQ have lost the plot.

COLIN HUSSEY
on November 14, 2018 at 8:49 pm

Russell, as usual spot on. However is anybody listening, I am beginning to have my doubts. I was at the Downing Street protest today and the only bod wearing a UKIP rosette. Several people came up to me and asked where’s UKIP, why aren’t they leading this. I was at total loss to give an adequate explanation. This day of all days, the party needed to be at the top of its game and in the limelight and fighting the corner of 17.4 millions of voted to leave the EU in 2016. This job is being taken over by other concerns like Leave means Leave, who I also support. Instead, what does the party faithful get, an e-mail about Tommy Robinson’s proposed membership of the party. Not good enough. Not good enough by a long chalk. Time for a change at the very top I feel………..

Kevin Baverstock
on November 14, 2018 at 9:35 pm

Colin.

Not today. Please?

Today we have the real existential threat that is Capitulation Day.

Whatever the errors/misjudgements or flaws up to this day, and UKIP’s Tommyrot obsession, we can’t have any other distractions right now.

From now on, until we get a General Election, ALL our effort must be to get rid of Theresa May.

Let’s NOT talk right now of leadership races or any other stuff except in private forums and have a unified attack on the menace , the REAL menace, of total humiliation delivered by the pathetic Tory government.

Well… listen to Mr Bav you might well say… ( I admit I’m ‘left’ UKIP- never denied it ) – What a hypocrite! But we need solidarity right now.

I’ll tell you why.

We all come here, banter and have fights, and some are real ding-dongs… But there is not one man-Jack amongst us who are not patriotic Britons who want the best for Britain and out people.

If they divide us…. They win…

So … Right now… let’s stick together troops !

Russell Hicks
on November 14, 2018 at 9:57 pm

Seems that Gerard did make a speech about the proposed new UN migration ‘compact’ in Strasbourg yesterday, better late than never: https://youtu.be/Sb5ulWks434 . A MUCH more powerful video on Marrakesh etc was made back in May, well worth watching this: https://youtu.be/3Z4woNYMyz8

ogga1
on November 18, 2018 at 7:27 pm

“Time for change at the very top I believe”
After such a post itis very hard to judge just what you do believe.

COLIN HUSSEY
on November 19, 2018 at 1:09 am

Ogga1, first and foremost at least I use my real name. The second most important and to answer your somewhat ludicrous question, I believe, like all rational Kippers should do that the party should be concentrating solely on leaving the European Union outside of the single market and any customs union, where ideally we leave with ‘no deal’ and resort to WTO rules, not paying the EU a single penny more, free to decide our own laws in our own parliaments, free to control our own borders, and able to gtrade with whom we like. I do NOT want our leadership allowing themselves to get sidetracked on secondary and less important issues such as Tommy Robinson’s proposed membership. Am I making sense to you, if not you are in the wrong party and should perhaps consider joining ‘For Britain’

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